Proceedings of 31st International Business Research Conference
27 - 29 July 2015, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, ISBN: 978-1-922069-80-1
Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in
Accounting Curriculum: The Case of Qatar University
Amna Riaz, Abdulrahman Anam Ousama* and Rami Mohammad Ahmad Zeitun
The importance of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is growing as more and more
countries are adopting these standards for financial reporting. Due to this increasing importance of
IFRS, many colleges and universities in different countries are now including IFRS into their
business curriculum. Recently Qatar University (QU) has also taken the initiative of incorporating
IFRS in accounting curriculum. The objective of this paper is to investigate the accounting student’s
perception on the adoption of IFRS in QU accounting curriculum. The results of this study show that
students are very interested in learning IFRS and they understand the importance of learning
international standards for their future career. They would prefer to choose IFRS as a course in their
accounting curriculum. They would like to learn it through lecture methods and they would prefer it
to introduce as an elective courses. To successfully implement IFRS into accounting curriculum,
Qatar University has to arrange relevant IFRS reading materials and to provide the efficient training
to its accounting faculty.
Key words: IFRS, Adoption, Accounting, Curriculum, Qatar University
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Amna Riaz, Abdulrahman Anam Ousama*, Rami Mohammad Ahmad Zeitun, College of Business and
Economics, Qatar University, Qatar. *Corresponding author: osamaanam@gmail.com